NSA news, articles and information:

8/3/2016 - As my readers know, I've reported on a number of scandals concerning the toxicity of medical drugs, including shocking death numbers in the US.
(Article by Jon Rappoport, republished from Jonrappoport.wordpress.com)
These scandals are leaks from inside the National Security State.
If you visit...

6/17/2016 - Maybe it's something in the water at the National Security Agency, but for some reason, officials there just can't seem to get enough of spying on us by continually expanding their surveillance dragnet.
As reported by The New American, the agency is now looking into possibly stealing data from Internet-connected...

1/21/2016 - A senior lawyer for the National Security Agency(NSA) recently admitted that his employer essentially gets help from some top media and technology companies to violate the Fourth Amendment protections of millions of Americans.
The lawyer, Rajesh De, who is the general counsel for the NSA, said recently...

6/21/2015 - President Obama has recently signed legislation called the USA Freedom Act, which seeks to put limits on how much personal data on Americans the National Security Agency can collect en masse. But many view the new law as just another head fake by an administration that, truth be told, tasked the NSA...

6/20/2015 - In recent days, there has been much discussion about passed legislation called the USA Freedom Act, a law that reportedly curbs some of the government's power to task the National Security Agency to collect massive amounts of data on American citizens.
At this point, the law is still new and policy...

6/9/2015 - Members of the United States Congress are patting themselves on the back for having passed a bill called the USA Freedom Act which, in theory, is designed to stop the National Security Agency (NSA) from continuing its mass collection of innocent American citizens' personal data.
That would be great...

6/6/2015 - An anonymous group of anti-NSA activists has come up with a unique way of protesting against the notorious spy agency's privacy-invading practices.
They are calling attention to the NSA's continued collection of ordinary citizens' personal communications by mimicking their actions. The group has...

6/3/2015 - Well, that was short-lived.
The Senate on Tuesday passed a measure that reaffirms previous legislation the Bush and Obama Administrations used to justify tasking the National Security Agency with conducting massive, and early on warrantless, electronic surveillance on Americans. Controversial provisions...

6/2/2015 - There are days I just shake my head in bewilderment at the astonishing, almost incomprehensible gullibility of mainstream Americans and the media that claims to be practicing intelligent journalism. When I see the Associated Press report things like, "The NSA had stopped gathering the records from phone...

5/30/2015 - We already know a lot about the illegal and unconstitutional National Security Agency (NSA) spy programs, thanks in great part to Edward Snowden's efforts, but now there is proof of activities on the part of the agency that go beyond what anyone imagined the NSA would ever contemplate.
It has been...

5/21/2015 - As the 2016 presidential race begins to heat up, candidates from both major parties are already jockeying for position on key political issues. One of the most talked about one concerns all Americans: privacy and how successive presidential administrations have interpreted their own power and statutory...

5/19/2015 - As Congress debates whether to "reform" or end the controversial USA Patriot Act by making it harder for presidents to use it to spy on all Americans, a federal appeals court has weighed in, ruling in recent days that the broad surveillance authority the law supposedly conveys is unconstitutional.
As...

4/22/2015 - A pair of lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan measure that would end the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance that has been at the heart of Fourth Amendment privacy concerns for years.
The Surveillance State Repeal Act, by Reps. Mark Pocan, D-Wisconsin, and Thomas Massie, R-Kentucky,...

4/19/2015 - Remember when it was considered the subject matter of tin foil hat-wearers to surmise that everything we do, say, or search for online is being tracked by covert government agencies acting in blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution? Well, now it's become common knowledge that we live in this exact,...

3/24/2015 - In what many purveyors of truth see as blatant hypocrisy, the Wikimedia Foundation, which founded the Internet-based, user-edited Wikipedia encyclopedia site, among others, has filed suit against the National Security Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice, alleging mass electronic surveillance conducted...

3/14/2015 - The National Security Agency no longer needs computers to be connected to the Internet in order to spy on the vast majority of computer users.
A top Russian security software maker has discovered that personal computers in some 30 countries have been infected with surveillance programs that the U.S....

1/31/2015 - In the digital age, when governments including ours are increasingly concerned about waging the next war, in large part, via the Internet, Americans' constitutional right to privacy seems a quaint anachronism. Successive presidential administrations, as well as Congress, appear to have ceded complete...

12/26/2014 - (Story by Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton , republished from TruthStreamMedia.com) We have finally reached the moment where Orwell's nightmare in 1984 meets the movie Minority Report. We're living there right now.
And, astoundingly, we still hear people saying "Well, I haven't done anything wrong,...

12/19/2014 - A House Republican is criticizing a piece of legislation just passed by Congress as grossly unconstitutional because it essentially gives the federal government and local law enforcement "unlimited access to the communications of every American."
As reported by InfoWars.com, Rep. Justin Amash of...

11/8/2014 - We have moved into the age of Big Brother. Though not as crudely obvious as two-way TVs in everyone's dwelling the way George Orwell depicted in his novel 1984, all the electronic devices we use can be tapped into by Homeland Security, the CIA and the the NSA (National Security Agency).
Let's get...

10/28/2014 - Documents made available earlier this year by former NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal that Britain's top spy agency, in conjunction with the National Security Agency, conspired to feed journalists and others misinformation, in a bid to discredit them and to implement a series of...

7/15/2014 - Amazon.com is building the CIA's new $600 million data center, reports the Financial Times. (1) At the same time Amazon.com is building this massive cloud computing infrastructure for the CIA, the company is also shipping millions of Fire TV set-top devices to customers who are placing them in their...

4/28/2014 - The biotech industry, including the likes of DuPont and Monsanto, is taking control of agriculture to a whole new level.
Already engaged in controlling farmers' seed and turning crops into genetically modified science experiments, the biotech industry is taking control a step further by installing...

2/17/2014 - The National Security Agency (NSA), which some have now dubbed the National Spying Agency, could soon be brought to its knees if an initiative launched by the freedom advocacy group Tenth Amendment Center (TAC) is successful. Members of the Maryland House of Delegates have reportedly introduced emergency...

2/8/2014 - This article is a compilation of a number of pieces I've written about Ed Snowden and the NSA. It doesn't replace them, but it hits the high points...
Let's begin here: If you absolutely must have a hero, watch Superman movies.
If your need for a hero is so great, so cloying, so heavy, so juicy...

1/21/2014 - During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, veteran U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said that, due to expansive domestic surveillance and spying by the National Security Agency, Americans are in danger of losing control of their country.
"I think that we are going to maintain our ability to protect...

1/18/2014 - With so much spying being conducted not just in the United States but worldwide by the National Security Agency, it was only a matter of time before some company developed a product capable of operating beyond its reach.
A couple of Swiss-based firms - Silent Circle and Geeksphone - in a joint venture...

1/10/2014 - It should have been a slam-dunk case of wholesale violation of the Fourth Amendment. But instead, the National Security Agency can spy on you anytime it wants, and without need for any bothersome warrants.
That is the opinion of one federal court anyway. As reported recently by the Washington Post,...

1/9/2014 - It has been said that one person's conspiracy theory is another's truth, depending on your interpretation of reality. Well, thanks to the rapid advances in technology - and a post-constitutional federal government, things that were once widely thought to be beyond the scope of reason are no longer so.
Take,...

1/7/2014 - Federal judges may disagree about whether the National Security Agency's massive collection of Americans' data is constitutional, but what about the nation's premier spy service intercepting personal computers en route to purchasers to install spyware? That may be the next case up before a federal court...

11/1/2013 - If the reports earlier this summer detailing how the National Security Agency monitors all data passing through the nation's internet service providers and tech companies was a little too much to digest or accept, that's understandable.
After all, this is America, right? And the NSA isn't supposed...

10/21/2013 - The article which originally appeared here has been removed because it is no longer aligned with the science-based investigative mission of Natural News. In late 2013 / early 2014, Mike Adams (the Health Ranger), editor of Natural News, transitioned from outspoken activist to environmental scientist....

10/17/2013 - It was a startling admission that in another era would have sent shockwaves through the nation's capital and caused heads to roll, arrest warrants to be issued and been the subject of countless news broadcasts for days.
Earlier this month, the head of the National Security Agency admitted to lawmakers...

9/22/2013 - Maybe you don't remember - after all, it's been about five years now - but once upon a time, Dear Leader Barack Obama promised to have the most transparent, open government in U.S. history.
The number of times that Obama has proven this to be a lie is too high to count, but the business of the National...

9/13/2013 - There is a saying that says, when it comes to government, they've got you coming and going.
No truer words are spoken when the subject comes to serial invasions of your privacy. Not only is the National Security Agency monitoring your every electronic communication, but the agency is paying your...

9/9/2013 - It may seem self-evident to most Americans, but now a noted legal organization has weighed in as well.
The American Civil Liberties Union says the overt spying on Americans' electronic communications - whether to simply collect "metadata" or to capture communications in their entirety - simply violates...

9/3/2013 - In the intelligence world, there are a number of acronyms describing the kind of intel that spy agencies gather.
For example, there is "ELINT" - electronic intelligence - and "HUMINT" - human intelligence.
Now, some analysts at the National Security Agency have invented a new one: "LOVEINT."
What's...

8/30/2013 - When news first broke that the National Security Agency has been spying on Americans, I suspected then that, in truth, the spying would amount to much more than we were initially told.
Sometimes it isn't good to be right.
The NSA has now admitted that the agency was spying on three-quarters of...

8/27/2013 - As bad as it is that the National Security Agency has been caught red-handed spying wholesale on American citizens' private electronic communications, it is even worse knowing that American taxpayers paid for the "privilege" of having their Fourth Amendment rights shredded.
According to Britain's...

8/14/2013 - The Digital Age has taken a huge toll on the Constitution, particularly when it comes to Fourth Amendment privacy rights, but it is also a force for good, as evidenced by a recent survey that indicates more Americans are waking up from years of slumber and rediscovering the Bill of Rights.
In particular,...

8/7/2013 - A Natural News investigation has been conducted into the anti-Monsanto movie named "Santo," which has garnered an enormous amount of attention over the past few weeks. (Click here to see the movie preview.)
You may be aware that the movie and the filmmaker have been under fire for the past two weeks,...

7/30/2013 - News of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)'s covert spying activities on Americans has sent shockwaves throughout the nation, rattling what little rudiments of freedom and liberty still remain in this once great nation. But a new report by The Washington Post (WP) ventures even deeper down the...

7/11/2013 - When elected to his first term, President Obama was as popular in Europe as he was in the United States - a popularity that stretched into the 2012 election cycle. European leaders extended their good will after Obama won reelection:
"Your re-election is a clear choice in favor of an America that...

7/9/2013 - The depth of arrogance and hypocrisy that defines the Obama administration knows no depths, as the president's missteps in managing the fallout from revelations that the NSA also hacked EU allies well demonstrate.
First, a little history. Two years ago, in May of 2011, The Wall Street Journal reported...

7/7/2013 - Shortly after reports surfaced in early June that the NSA has been spying on Americans at home, President Obama attempted to put us at ease, telling us that the government "is not listening to your phone calls."
That, of course, has turned out to be a blatant lie, but one in which the president,...

6/29/2013 - Every director of the NSA is a general or an admiral.
The NSA is organized under the US Dept. of Defense.
Imagine that you are a powerful player who straddles two worlds---the Dept. of Defense and the private sector where corporate defense-contractors live and flourish.
You've served many times...

6/28/2013 - The NSA is spying on everybody.
That includes a major, major, prime target: Congress.
So imagine this conversation taking place, in a car, on a lonely road outside Washington, late at night. The speakers are Congressman X and a private operative representing a covert unit inside the NSA:
"Well,...

6/28/2013 - Before reading any further, it is important for Americans to understand something about our constitutional system: Just because some official "entity" - a federal court, a bureaucracy, a president - "authorizes" an action does not make that authorization proper or even legal.
The Constitution is...

6/23/2013 - The article which originally appeared here has been removed because it is no longer aligned with the science-based investigative mission of Natural News. In late 2013 / early 2014, Mike Adams (the Health Ranger), editor of Natural News, transitioned from outspoken activist to environmental scientist....

6/23/2013 - The article which originally appeared here has been removed because it is no longer aligned with the science-based investigative mission of Natural News. In late 2013 / early 2014, Mike Adams (the Health Ranger), editor of Natural News, transitioned from outspoken activist to environmental scientist....

6/21/2013 - As reports go main stream about the NSA spying on millions of Americans through massive phone and email surveillance programs, it seems like nothing is being done to stop this massive breach of privacy. As massive surveillance powers hover over Americans and people all across the world, how will this...

6/20/2013 - For Americans who still believe we have a legitimate two-party political system, and that each party has its own set of principles, values and beliefs that are diametrically different than those of the other party, should abandon that fallacy pronto, because frankly, it just ain't true.
While officially...

6/20/2013 - Most people don't know about the existence of quantum computers. Almost no one understands how they work, but theories include bizarre-sounding explanations like, "they reach into alternate universes to derive the correct answers to highly complex computational problems."
Quantum computers are not...

6/19/2013 - "Official" Washington - the establishment political cabal made up of members of both major parties which has "ruled" the nation's capital for generations - has been frantically trying to downplay recent revelations that the National Security Administration (NSA) obtained the phone records from millions...

6/18/2013 - The tortured logic and pained explanations (and justifications) being given by top government officials and lawmakers in the wake of the disclosure that the National Security Agency snoops on every American is as astounding as it is pathetic. But then again, they are being made by people who are a)...

6/17/2013 - In light of revelations that the federal government's massive spy apparatus has been unleashed on its own citizens, some tech experts are now advising users of social media and other Internet-based sites that have helped Uncle Sam pry into your life to stop using them altogether.
While I do utilize...

6/17/2013 - Since Americans learned that their own National Security Agency has been used to spy on them, in violation of its mandate to conduct only foreign surveillance and in direct violation of the Constitution, there has been an outcry from tens of millions of citizens upset that the Bush and Obama Administrations...

6/16/2013 - It's a typical case of the pot calling the kettle black. If it wasn't so serious and hypocritical, it might even be comical.
By now most Americans are aware of the National Security Agency's gathering of metadata on millions of Americans, in blatant violation of the Bill of Rights (never mind that...

6/16/2013 - Well, they've solved the riddle. Ed Snowden was able to steal thousands of highly protected NSA documents because...he had a thumb drive.
This is the weapon that breached the inner sanctum of the most sophisticated information agency in the world.
This is the weapon to which the NSA, with all...

6/16/2013 - The article which originally appeared here has been removed because it is no longer aligned with the science-based investigative mission of Natural News. In late 2013 / early 2014, Mike Adams (the Health Ranger), editor of Natural News, transitioned from outspoken activist to environmental scientist....

6/15/2013 - Tens of millions of Americans are upset over the serial privacy violations committed during the Obama years by the National Security Agency, the CIA, the FBI and other federal spy and law enforcement organizations, and rightfully so. But it's important to remember that these kinds of violations were...

6/13/2013 - Ed Snowden, NSA leaker. Honest man. Doing what was right. Bravo.
That still doesn't preclude the possibility that, unknown to him, he was managed by people to put him the right place to expose NSA secrets.
Snowden's exposure of NSA was a righteous act, because that agency is a RICO criminal. But...

6/13/2013 - "When it comes to telephone calls, nobody is listening to your telephone calls. That's not what this program is about."
That was President Obama following a speech he gave in San Jose, Calif., June 7, in response to a report by The Guardian newspaper that the National Security Administration (NSA)...

6/12/2013 - The article which originally appeared here has been removed because it is no longer aligned with the science-based investigative mission of Natural News. In late 2013 / early 2014, Mike Adams (the Health Ranger), editor of Natural News, transitioned from outspoken activist to environmental scientist....

6/12/2013 - Al used to be a funny guy. Now, he's not.
Make no mistake about it, if Bush were president at the moment, Little Al would be attacking him mercilessly.
But with Obama in the White House, Al sings a different tune.
The NSA spying is A-OK. No problem.
"I can assure you, this is not about spying...

6/11/2013 - "Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector, anywhere... I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President..." - NSA spy grid whistleblower Edward Snowden.
And so it begins: the power to tap...

6/10/2013 - Boom. Explosive revelations. The NSA is using telecom giants to spy on anybody and everybody, in a program called PRISM.
But the information is not new.
Three books have been written about the super-secret NSA, and James Bamford has written them all .
In 2008, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now interviewed...

6/9/2013 - The NSA spy scandal has just exploded beyond the worst fears of the highly-secretive U.S. government. The whistleblower behind the leaked PRISM slides has just stepped forward, offering a mind-blowing interview to investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald, who broke this story in The Guardian. (Wow,...

6/9/2013 - Breaking news -- this is one of the biggest stories of our lifetime -- it is critical for all internet users to read and understand this. The Guardian has just released a new slide today from its collection of 41 PRISM slides detailing the top secret NSA spy program that has, for years, granted the...

6/8/2013 - What do Google, AOL, Skype, Facebook, Apple, Hotmail and Yahoo all have in common? They have all been caught turning over private user data to the government's spy agency, the NSA. All these companies routinely turn over the emails, voice calls, text chats, photos, files and even logins and passwords...

6/6/2013 - The USA is reeling today from the explosive discovery that the Obama administration has been spying on all Verizon phone customers by surveilling their phone usage on a daily basis for the last several years. This is a wholesale, routine spy surveillance program that has "Big Brother" written all over...

8/4/2012 - Two former high-ranking officials at the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), a federal bureaucracy that collects data and intelligence on foreign communications for national security purposes, have come forward with allegations that the NSA actively monitors Americans as well. According to testimonies...

3/29/2012 - Regular readers of NaturalNews know that we've been busy of late keeping track of your privacy in this Information Age, which is not easy considering all of the entities - public and private - who want to know everything these days about you and what you are doing 24/7/365.
But that's impossible,...